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News Releases and NILC Statements (by Date)*

1/11/10

MEDIA ADVISORY:
Congress Must Turn a New Leaf on Immigrant Policies When Finishing Health Care Reform

12/15/09

A GOOD FIRST STEP: Rep. Gutierrez Outlines Much-Needed Reforms to Fix the Nation’s Broken Immigration System

11/12/09

Immigrants’ Rights Advocates Honored at National Immigration Law Center’s 30th Anniversary Dinner for Their Decades of Service

11/9/09

Hundreds of Immigrants Will Finally Become U.S. Citizens under Terms of Lawsuit Settlement

10/16/09

New Immigration Enforcement Agreements Will Make a Bad Problem Worse

10/13/09

Thousands Urge Congress to Act Now on Immigration Reform

(see also www.univision.com/content/videoplayer.jhtml?cid=2123901)

10/8/09

CHIRLA Press Advisory: Holding Firm to Faith, Hope and Change

10/7/09

Government Terminates “No Match” Rule Harmful to Authorized Workers

10/6/09

DHS report outlines problems with immigrant detention system,
but lacks enforcement mechanisms for proposed solution

9/24/09

Tyler Moran Tapped to Lead the National Immigration Law Center’s Policy Agenda

9/23/09

National Back to School DREAM Day of Action: DREAM Act Advocates Across the Country Hold Over 100 Events in 26 States

9/16/09

New Senate Health Care Reform Proposal Fails to Meet the Needs of Americans: Senate Committee Buckles, Allows Immigration Attacks to Derail Common Sense

9/16/09

Intolerable Conditions at Downtown Immigration Facility Will End Under Terms of Lawsuit Settlement

8/27/09

521 Organizations Send Letter to White House Condemning 287(g) Program for Causing Racial Profiling and Endangering Public Safety

8/21/09

National Immigration Law Center Calls upon Secretary Napolitano to Take Leadership in Promoting Immigration Reform Efforts

8/6/09

ICE Announces Modifications to Immigration Detention System

8/3/09

NILC Decries Treatment of Hunger Strikers in Basile, Louisiana

7/28/09

Immigrant Detainee Rights Are Routinely, Systematically Violated, New Report Finds

7/23/09

MEDIA ADVISORY: Widespread Violations of Immigration Detention System Standards Revealed in Comprehensive New Report

7/21/09

Enthusiasm about electronic employment eligibility verification systems evinced today at Senate subcommittee hearing is misplaced

7/17/09

Advocates Condemn Obama Administration's Expansion of DHS's Failed 287(g) Program

7/10/09

Symbolic Immigration Enforcement Measures Passed by the Senate Would Hurt All Workers

 7/8/09

NILC statement on Obama administration's decision to renew FAR rule and rescind SSA no-match rule

4/30/09

DHS Issues "New" Worksite Enforcement Guidelines That Are Simply More of the Same

4/2/09

Immigration Officials Sued for Holding Detainees in Appalling Conditions at L.A. Detention Facility

2/4/09

NILC Applauds Removal of Five-Year Waiting Period for Legal Immigrant Children to Obtain Affordable Health Care


11/12/08

Immigrants' Rights Organizations Sue DHS for Public Accountability about Deportation Program That Sidesteps Legal Process for Immigrants

10/28/08

Groups Sue for Release of Government Documents Related to Local Immigration Raid

10/23/08

Civil Rights Coalition Charges That Finalized "No-Match" Rule Will Hurt American Workers and the U.S. Economy

7/31/08

Statement upon House Reauthorization of Basic Pilot/E-Verify for Five More Years

7/15/08

President Issues Executive Order Mandating That Federal Contractors Use Controversial and Error-Prone Basic Pilot/E-Verify

3/21/08

Civil Rights Coalition Charges That Republished "No-Match" Rule Will Hurt American Workers


12/4/07

Groups Sue to Stop Excessive Citizenship Delays: FBI Name Checks Disrupt Lives, Stall Naturalization Process for Thousands

  11/24/07

Government Abandons Current “No-Match” Rule Harmful to Legal Workers: Department of Homeland Security to Issue Revised Rule Still Relying on Flawed Social Security Database

  11/14/07

Civil Rights Coalition to Argue in [Federal District] Court That Arizona Employer Sanctions Law is Illegal

10/24/07

Statement on Senate DREAM Act Vote: We are not giving up. Too much is at stake.

10/10/07

Preliminary Injunction Issued: Court Blocks Government from Implementing Flawed Social Security "No-Match" Rule

10/1/07

Court Extends Order That Blocks Government from Implementing Flawed Social Security "No-Match" Rule

9/4/07

Civil Rights Coalition Challenges Arizona Employer Sanctions Law

8/31/07

Court Halts Government from Implementing Flawed Social Security No-Match Rule

8/29/07

AFL-CIO, ACLU and National Immigration Law Center Challenge New Homeland Security Rule (SSA no-match letters)

7/31/07

Injunction Upheld: Judge Finds Widespread Abuses in Immigrant Detention (Orantes-Hernandez v. Gonzales)

6/28/07

NILC Statement on Today's Cloture Vote (immigration reform)

6/25/07

NILC Opposes Current Senate Bill Because It Would Preclude Real Reform (immigration reform)

6/8/07

Statement on the Thursday, June 7, Senate Vote (immigration reform)

5/21/07

Statement on the Senate-White House Immigration Reform Proposal

 

 

 

 

*This list of NILC news releases and statements is not exhaustive.

 
 
 

 

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